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Steven's Last Night In Town
Jun. 9th, 2005 09:29 amI’ve been talking about moving away for so long now, you might be starting to wonder if I’m ever going to leave. How does that Ben Folds song go? “We thought he was gone, but he’s come back again, last week it was funny, but the joke’s wearing thin.”* But D-Day, or M-Day, or L-Day, whatever, is Sunday, June 26th, two weeks and three days from today. Last night I was informed between great crashes of thunder and wuxia human sacrifice that I’d better get on the ball in organizing some kind of social event before I go.
I don’t really want to throw a party for myself. I feel weird doing that, and it puts a lot of pressure on one night. What are the odds I’d get all the people I’m going to miss so much (that's you) lined up in one place on one day? But I really do want to see you all before leaving. I guess what I’d like best is to plan one semi-official night at Doyle’s or some similarly low-key establishment with all you Ephemeral Circus / LJ / gamer / etc. friends. And then to also make it to as many other outings as possible in the next two weeks. And if any of you want to invite me over to your homes or anything else before I go, well, that would be swell too.
So, when should that semi-official shindig be? Assuming we wanted to do something on a weekend night, I have just three weekends left and one of them is tomorrow. I had thought next weekend (the 17th or 18th) would be the best one, but that got disgruntled mutterings last night. So I guess I have to do the poll thing. I hate this because I know I should have done this a month ago and many of you are already pretty booked up and there’s going to be like three positive responses and the little red “poll result” bars will look soooooo pathetic. So, with all that sexy self-confidence out of the way...
[Poll #509509]
And like I say, keep me posted on other things that are going on. Like this guerilla croquet thing. I don't actually think I'm the core demographic for it—at least I doubt I can do Edwardian—but I can't even decipher from the six posts about it what day it is on.
*And yeah, I am making plans already to revisit Boston this summer. I can't stay away from you, giant sandwich.
I don’t really want to throw a party for myself. I feel weird doing that, and it puts a lot of pressure on one night. What are the odds I’d get all the people I’m going to miss so much (that's you) lined up in one place on one day? But I really do want to see you all before leaving. I guess what I’d like best is to plan one semi-official night at Doyle’s or some similarly low-key establishment with all you Ephemeral Circus / LJ / gamer / etc. friends. And then to also make it to as many other outings as possible in the next two weeks. And if any of you want to invite me over to your homes or anything else before I go, well, that would be swell too.
So, when should that semi-official shindig be? Assuming we wanted to do something on a weekend night, I have just three weekends left and one of them is tomorrow. I had thought next weekend (the 17th or 18th) would be the best one, but that got disgruntled mutterings last night. So I guess I have to do the poll thing. I hate this because I know I should have done this a month ago and many of you are already pretty booked up and there’s going to be like three positive responses and the little red “poll result” bars will look soooooo pathetic. So, with all that sexy self-confidence out of the way...
[Poll #509509]
And like I say, keep me posted on other things that are going on. Like this guerilla croquet thing. I don't actually think I'm the core demographic for it—at least I doubt I can do Edwardian—but I can't even decipher from the six posts about it what day it is on.
*And yeah, I am making plans already to revisit Boston this summer. I can't stay away from you, giant sandwich.
